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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1988-01-27, Page 4Page 4 —Lucknow Sentinel, Wednesday, January 27, 1988 P.O. Box 400, Lucknow NOG 2H0 528-2822 .Established 1873 Thomas Thompson -Advertising Manager Subscription rates in advance: Rob, Bundy -Editor Pat Livingston -General Manager Si 700 Outside Canada $60Q0 $1490 Outside Canada 55800 Senior Citizen Second class mailing reg. no. 0847 Advertising is accepted on the condition that in the event of a typographical error, the portion of the advertising space occupied by the erroneous item together with a reasonable allowance for signature, will not be charged for, but the balance of the advertisment will be paid at the applicable rates. No military solution The eyes of the world have turned to the Middle East as tensions in Israel between Palestinians and Israelis escalate to the point of violence once again. The conflict between the two groups of people stems from the fact. that in 1948, the United Nations granted an Israeli State to the Jewish people of the world. The Israeli State that was granted the Jews hap- pened to be the lands inhabited by the Palestinian Arabs. Since that time immediately following the Second World War, the Palestinians have fought against the occupation of their homeland by the Israelis. As the situation stands today, the Israelis control the government and the military of . a Zionist State that had been inhabited by the Arabs since long before the birth of Christ. The Palestinians have become a lost people in their own land. There is no easy solution to the Middle East tensions. While the word 'Palestinian' has become associated with terrorism in recent years, one must be sympathetic with their plight. The Palestinians, like the Jews of the 1940's, simply want a land to call their own. There con be no military solution to this problem. It must be a politican solution arising from concessions from both sides. Increased military aide to either side will only lead to more and more bloodshed., Following the Six Day War of 1967, t}he Palestinians, for the most part, have kept to two areas of Israel. These areas, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank have become thorns in the side of the Israelis and their increased military action against the protesting Palestinians has made the world sit up and rediscover the problems faced by the two, very dif- ferenf peoples. Can the State of Israel be restructured to include the needs of the Palestinians? The Israelis say "no" and the Palestinians say "it must be". There is no 'enemy' or 'bad guy' in this conflict. Just two very dif- ferent, very volatile groups of people trying to live separate lives in the very same place. And°that place is the Holy Land, the very birth place of the King of Peace. R.B. If you happened to take a moment to read last week's On the Side here, you'll know I issued a bit of a challenge to our Sentinel readers to answer a couple of tough questions. The questions were: how much wood can a woodchuck chuck? ; how big is Hell's half acre:?; how far away are two hoots and a holler? ; and finally, which came first, the chicken or the egg? Tough questions to answer you think? Not really, say I. We did receive a couple of interesting answers from local readers. Joe Legrand sent me a cryptic letter (written complete- ly backwards, which to us dislexia suf- ferers looks perfectly fine) with some good answers. Joe said in his letter that it is too late to know how much wood a woodchuck could chuck because the Blonde`l Co. has cut down so much wood, all the woodchucks have emigrated to Ethiopia! Hell's half acre is the distance covered by a boomerang that doesn't come back, according to Mr. Legrand. I got a lovely poem from Marion McFarlane with an answer to that one as well: How big is Hell's half acre? That's the question you ask. So I will try And answer the task. I've thought and I've pondered And feel the answer -is this: Satan's got a half acre, Thatis all that is his, But his guest list is growing There sure is a lot, It's crowded and stuffy And that's why it's so hot! Very good, Mrs. McFarlane. You ob- viously put some thought into your answer. I actually like your answer much better than my own...which we'll get to later. As far as which came first, the chicken or the egg, Joe says this is a typical case of repeating ignorance. He says any rooster could wink to us on that account. While those are all good answers to some tough questions, I feel the best answers are these: Oti 1T11ESIDE Two hoots and a holler are 600 yards. We arrive at that figure by consulting the Guiness Book of World Records which states that the normal intelligible range of the human voice in still air is 200 yards. So presumably, if you hoot twice and holler once, it should be three times that distance...or 600 yards. How much wood can a woodchuck chuck?, Actually, not very much at all. Ac- cording to the Encyclopedia Britannica, woodchucks - also know as groundhogs - "hibernate for as long as eight months each year." This leaves only four months for chucking and they do have other demands on their time such as digging burrows and eating. Taking all this into account, I would guess that a woodchuck rarely chucks at all. How big is Hell's half acre? It's about half the size of God's green acre, but in a much tougher neigbourhood. And finally, the moment you've all been waiting for, which comes first, the chicken or the egg? Well, to answer this question, we gave a call over to Brian at the Lucknow Village Market. Brian told' us that while both the eggs and the chickens that he sells arrive at the market on Tuesday morning, .the eggs arrive just a little earlier. So Joe, no matter what the rooster may say, the eggs, in Lucknow at least, come first. The eggs, by the way, come from New Hamburg while the chickens are delivered by truck from Petersburg. And there you have it...some simple answers to some tough questions.• Thanks to the good folks who wrote in to help with these questions. It is always nice to get a little feedback. Have a good week! IN A BID Tb t3l'ING FACE. Tb THE" MIDCLE EAST -T c W, PALESTINIANS TN/W(4) RcaS AT ISQA1 LI SOLDIERS.71-1E -teas RESR)NoED BY LaBBtA/G -MAR GAS AT A VILLAGE or WOMEN AND Ci./IL IREN. THE PF110E TALKS' ARE DXPECrED Tb CoITh UE ALL NIGHT AND IN'ro 70 years ago January 27, 1918 The walks cleared - Judging by the energy which Lucknow citizens put into clearing snow from the sidewalks on Saturday and Monday last, one would think they were obeying an order from the Food Controller or from the Militia Department. But it was just a by-law pass- ed by the Village Council. Councilor Henderson, who is in charge of streets and walks, told residents on Camp- bell Street that a by-law had been passed and they had better get busy or by Tuesday the town would put a man on the job. On Monday the walks were pretty well cleared, and the big job of levelling down the huge piles of snow on the south side having been completed, the street took on a fairly respectable appearance. Let us all try to live up to these provi- sions of the by-law. Less sugar for candy - Preliminary steps have been taken to curtail the use of cane sugar in the manufacture of candy. Manufacturers have been informed of the necessity for saving such sugar and are now endeavoring to adjust their business SENTINEL MEMOIRS to the requirements of the situation. The money spent for candy in the United States and Canada in the past year is dou- ble the amount of money needed to keep Belgium supplied with food for a year. 50 years ago , January 27, 1938 Ashfield marksman drops wolf - Wolves that have become increasingly numerous in Ashfield and Huron Township had their ranks diminished by one a few days ago when Dan Rose shot one on the farm of Piper Kenneth MacLennan on the bank of the lake near Kintail. Rose, 22, is down from Saskatchewan to spend the winter with his aunt, Mrs. Grace Long, on the 12th concession. He rates high in handling a gun and brought the wolf down at 100 yards at a dead run. The an mal, the first shot in Ashfield, weighed sixty pounds and his hide has been displayed at MacLennan's store at Lochalsh. Amberly road opened - Patrolmen on the Lucknow-Amberley road, upon instruc- tions from the Bruce County engineer, opened the road with graders last week making it fit for motor vehicle traffic. The first cars came through on Thursday. On Monday evening, near the tail -end of the weekend thaw, the county plow made a one-way trip thru this road clearing a single track. Patrolmen will continue to keep the road open upon instruction from the count 25 years ago January 304 1963. Ford garage broken into -Gordon Mon- tgomery's Ford Garage at the west end of main street was again entered in the early morning hours of Saturday. The loot was secondary to the ransack- ing of the office drawers, desks, filing cabinets and boxes which left an unbelievable disorder of valuable papers and records. Entrance was made through a back win- dow and in addition to the scatteration which littered the offices, the soft dri k dispenser was badly damaged in prying off the coin box. To top off the vandalism, a new battery sitting on diplay near the front door was smashed open permitting the acid to run out. The Co-op warehouse was also entered the same night. It is believed this break-in was a search for gas. 10 ye ago ' Januar, .,5,1978 Reeve appointed - The Reeve of Amabel Township, Gary Harron, was appointed Warden of Bruce County at the preliminary meeting of the Inaugural Ses- sion for 1978 held Monday last week. Harron was elected over Alvin Thomp- son, Reeve for Kincardine Township, the only other contender for the position. Reeve of Paisley, Andy Cormack, last year's Warden, invested his successor with the Chain of Office. In his inaugural address, Warden Har- ron said that the residents of the county feel that "we have one of the top counties in the proAnce of Ontario."